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Demonstration? Defenestration!
Episode 848
Rerun: Throwing people out of windows might seem a peculiar way to protest, but it’s happened so often in history, it’s got a special name: defenestr…
2 years, 2 months ago
Jerry Lee Lewis's Child Bride
Episode 847
When Jerry Lee Lewis landed at Heathrow Airport for his first UK tour on 22nd May, 1958, he was met with a flurry of journalists eager for a scoop. Y…
2 years, 2 months ago
Burying Bob Marley
Episode 846
The funeral for Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley was half religious ceremony, half rock concert on 21st May, 1981.
An estimated 100,000 people are beli…
2 years, 2 months ago
How To Survive A Nuclear Bomb
Episode 845
‘Protect and Survive’, the UK Government’s pamphlet offering Britons advice on how to navigate the aftermath of a nuclear explosion, was published on…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Man Who Invented The Wild West
Episode 843
Rerun: Gun totin’, horse ridin’ spectacular ‘Buffalo Bill’s Wild West’ opened in Omaha, Nebraska on 17th May, 1883 - the start of a multi-decade run.…
2 years, 2 months ago
Marie Antoinette's Wedding
Episode 842
Rerun: The future Queen of France was accompanied by 57 carriages, 117 footmen and 376 horses on her journey from Austria to Versailles - but remarka…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Unkillable King George
Episode 841
George III narrowly dodged a bullet for the SECOND time in one day on 15th May, 1800, as he attended a performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. …
2 years, 2 months ago
The First Two Minute Silence
Episode 840
The two minute silence can be traced back to 14th May, 1918, when it was first observed in Cape Town, South Africa.
Repeated daily for a year, and in…
2 years, 2 months ago
Cardinal Richelieu and the Table Knife
Episode 839
Disdain for bad table manners reportedly led 17th Century Machiavelli Cardinal Richelieu to insist that knives should be flattened at his table on 13…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Lady Who Left Her Baby Outside
Episode 837
As Annette Sorensen drank margaritas in a New York BBQ restaurant on May 10th, 1997, she left her 14 month-old daughter outside, in a stroller.
She s…
2 years, 2 months ago